Where Did They Go? - Exploring Historic Abandoned Mining Camps

here's some really cool old dodge trucks sitting side by side anything in the glove box nope that's really cool looks kind of pretty much the same in there but then what's got that big piece of machinery looks like ore would go in there looks like a an orbit with a so what's uh what's the story behind this place i don't know a lot about it i do know that uh silver and lead were discovered here in 1869 and then three years later a mining camp grew up and there was a general store and a post office so officially it is a ghost town okay so here's a little cabin there in the distance this is uh this is pretty amazing guys it's a big piece of machinery and it was on a trailer you can see the wheels there so this was brought out here on a road yeah and then if you saw the road with all the switchbacks that uh we took to come down here it makes you wonder how they managed to get this thing exactly because look at that end get out of the way so you can see it all to that end and that was towed behind a uh a larger vehicle so i'm sure that weighs uh quite a bit that's the most that must have been something to see coming through this mountain pass and then here's another large piece of machinery it's got the same like or shoot bin on the front those look like maybe conveyors there's a piping going through so and walked around the front just to show you the other side of this big long trailer and see some steps going up to the different levels very impressive piece of equipment and this one was trying to hide from us in the bushes it's only the front of it unfortunately the back's missing i wonder if it was uh because here's some equipment over here i wonder if it was just used the engine to run some of this equipment maybe they are really beautiful aren't they the way they were designed back in those days now what age would this be 40 50 between that grow yeah i would say probably sometime around then maybe late 30s to 40s era so here's that cabin we were speaking of earlier walk inside take a look it's a shower face that is or somebody wanted to use that [Music] they had running water that's really neat to see [Music] nothing all empty all empty but i think this is where they would have hung their teacups oh the hooks are still in there yeah so they're teacups and mugs that one's stuck but that's empty and then next we've got the bedroom that nice shelf up above that whole wall there above the window so i've noticed what they've done is they've walled the walls insulated the walls with cardboard boxes and then painted it twilight one color here they didn't do a very good job well they they did made do with what they had no i didn't mean that i made the paint job i see and they had a bathroom and obviously the ensuite yep so here yeah the oh the floor is really bad so won't step in here let's stay in the doorway so that must be the shower shower pan is outside toilet sink and what's around the corner it's got a chair okay be heading back outside some great stone work here on this wall unfortunately that has crumbled a very tall post up there looks like there's an insulator along the top so it could have been electrical pole we've got quite a few more buildings to explore and then just across the way there are some more stone foundations up there the bed is filled with tires empty except for a plastic plate and a can it's been a storage little shed trailer we'll peek into the door oh roofs ceilings collapse through couch on there bunch of rubber looks like serpentine belts a little kitchen there's a view from the front looking all the way back you can see like andrea said there are tires up in there i think there's one more door towards that bedroom we can look in here it is the last little section on to the next building a little corrugated metal structure maybe for more storage was a little bit interesting okay a little workshop area tons of coffee cans and uh lot of trash what's in here just a little bit more it's got a bucket full of old oil in there like radiator hoses and car parts and i wonder if this is oh nope expecting it to be the bathroom this one's got a vent over the doorway nothing inside anymore i got a pipe coming out there had some electrics that's about it and we'll make our way through this little debris field what was that i think it was a lizard just made you just got me jumped one caught me just now this is pretty neat though you've got tons and tons of jars built around the huge rock and they've used the rock face as a wall at the back that is really cool now this one looks like a luxury cabin i had a fence all the way around it nice porch it's got a few tin can lids here and there i guess blocking up the knots that have fallen out of the wood yeah that's possible i don't know what these rings are people have uh just found these and hung them up on here maybe although there's lots and lots of nails so it looks like they did hang things little chair stove would have been right here you've got a cooker here a gas cooker or at least a gas hog hot water heater and this wool wow these are pretty uh i wonder when these are from oh i've got a date december 1952 i don't know if you can get that 52 1952 oh that is great let's sink the drawers so i would imagine this would have been kitchen diner dining room yeah i would say let's have a look in these and cupboards old lino tiles curling up on the edges all the peeling paint that would be lead paint wouldn't it if this was the 50s yes there's another no dates [Applause] so again they've lined their walls with cardboard for insulation cardboard and they've got wallpaper over the top of that that floor is blowing really look at some of those photos over there some just inside the door here as well so this would have been the bedroom oh wow inside this cupboard you've got like a key hang [Applause] it's got essay essay gate office cadillac pickup was meant to be a chevy intel pickup so they'd hang their keys keep them safe and then this is a massive massive bathroom the floor's okay here i'll dress toilet wash look at the basin and then it looks like maybe they might have no there's a door i was going to say maybe they would have had a ball could have had a bath there or maybe a shower in the corner because of the way the at the walls painted so this is where the bath would have been next to the toilet you've got the hot and cold water but up here you've got a curtain rail so they would have had a curtain privacy curtain and if you look up on the ceiling they've got a hookup where you could hang a shower so it probably was one of those hot and cold water with a tap and then one of those hand showers that you could then hang up that's my guess yeah into the next room just to our left that doorway that was the bathroom we were just in so that was like a jack and jill bathroom having two entrances into it so i wonder what this room would have been it's got an outside door too outside two outside doors a lot of windows let in a lot of light there's even an attic or crawl space maybe just uh yes for storage or something i wonder if this was the fireplace originally it looks like it would have been though i don't see uh it doesn't continue up into the the roof at all strange isn't it because it does look like it would have been a fireplace but they've uh boarded it with cardboard because on the other side that's those cabinets and one more room in here see i've got an old argyle sock and some denim above the door here little closet space there just a small room two windows there you can see some wires some insulators for electricity this building looks like that was a garage the door there if this was a garage this would have been a little workshop shed perhaps and it would appear we have found a grave there's two next to each other the other cross has fallen down that there looks like another garage [Applause] just like the building down further we checked out it's built into the side of the rock and the top little cubby attached to another sizeable cabin here a single room out here the window looking right into the garage again cardboard the insulator of choice and here we've got cement yeah nice concrete screened in porch very nice porch very large window so the stove would have been in here this had been the kitchen doggy door a living room maybe possibly living room by the size and the large window over the porch oh there's a remains of a dead animal yeah just a skin i have no idea what that is diamond shaped window that's um that's different the roofs really sagging i don't want to walk through that way no it doesn't look very very secure and here look at the wood paneling on the wood slats for the wall so that looks like that could have been the kitchen [Applause] there's a door going out to the back maybe we'll walk around i see some papers up there on into the next room that's weird flooring this definitely looks like it was a bedroom got some shelves there a little closet [Applause] some more shelves this was a nice cabin and another door this is a nice bright ring [Music] very much so great windows that door just leads back out to the goes back to the patio so i wonder what this room was i think my would this have been another bedroom would that have been a a wardrobe in the corner yeah something's definitely missing from there that's what that would be a place to have it so this yeah could have been a another bedroom potentially they've got a huge loft space i don't know if there's anything up there some critters and this has got to be the bathroom and it still has the bathtub and toilet and sink it's even got the toilet roll paper and a dish dish for the soap toothbrushes medicine cabinet light bulb is still intact that's pretty amazing this is yeah that's great hot water heater piece of paper on the floor special distribution retirement security plan effective november 1st 1959. i don't know if you can down the bottom right at the very bottom i don't want to get this is the other side of that yeah it's a bit stinky potential kitchen this is just tons of paperwork about there's a security balance sheet june placed ledges no date there's a date here may 1st 1964. that's the cabin we've just left we came out that door that's where the hot water heater was right next to all that paperwork there's another cabin up there go check it out and this is what is inside absolutely nothing this cabin here i love the ceiling old newspaper and magic magazine articles make for an interesting read bedtime and then in here i'm gonna try not to get my shadow in the way we're gonna get some of it though i'll dress her with drawers here's that main room the same cabin as you can see they continued with the newspaper the magazine print on the ceiling and there right in the center of the screen i have two gentlemen in world war ii regalia let's hope they made it home safe a bunch of metal pieces and things on the floor here old vent pipe from the stove it's missing now looks like an electrical box up there unfortunately this cabin has been ransacked it would appear looks like we're going to end this explore with a trip to the bathroom oh or not it's not the bathroom oh it's really strong smelling of oil yeah old oil you see it's saturated in the uh the lumber here hello everyone it is steven and andrea from pin in the atlas and andrea has done it again we have found quite a remarkable sight way out in the hills [Music] you